Despite the obvious advantages of technology, social media has generated highly negative consequences. To begin with, social media has created a false sense of connectivity and friendship. Additionally, social media has encouraged new forms of harassment through cyber-bullying. One last result of social media is a decrease in overall productivity. These negative attributes make social media a dangerous and controversial set of tools.
The first negative consequence of social media is a false sense of connectedness. People feel a sense of belonging when they can log onto the Internet and see the people they can talk to. Unfortunately, despite the number of people everyone can connect with, there are lower standards for what constitutes a friend. Relationships are casual online interactions rather than legitimate friendships.
Another consequence of social media is the creation of cyber-bullying. People in all age groups now find themselves the object of scorn and derision through message boards. In online interactions, people don’t fear to say things because they don’t have to do so in person. This unfortunate byproduct can have dreadful repercussions for both bullies and the bullied.
Finally, social media has become a distraction and decreased productivity. Students doing homework are likely to be pulled towards scouring social media to check on their friends. Rather than pursuing hobbies, people are more likely to spend time pursuing artificial relationships they established online. Social media has ultimately provided a source of addicting distraction that has turned the world into unproductive workers.
Thus when all factors are considered, the presence of social media has simply brought about too many negative repercussions for people. It has replaced genuine relationships with impersonal interactions. It has introduced a new and almost unpunishable form of bullying. Also, it has become a distraction, turning people into unproductive workers. The snowball effect of negative repercussions is astounding when examined in unison.
The lecture and reading are both about the negative consequences of Social Media. The author and lecturer are of the opinion that social media has encouraged new forms of harassment through cyber-bullying. The lecturer and author have made three negative consequences of social media discussed thereunder.
To begin with, the author argues that social media is a false sense of connectedness. He is of the opinion that Relationships in social media are casual rather than legitimate friendships. The lecturer agrees with this argument. He feels that social media has made youths isolated from real-world; moreover, teens are not able to distinguish between the real-world and the web-world.
Secondly, the reading states that social media has created cyber-bullying. He thinks that people do not fear to say things in the online transaction because they dont have to do so in person. The lecturer accepts this by mentioning that cyber-bullying has made the youths more dangerous; furthermore, he gives the statistics where CBS reported that 42% of the total youth bullied online. Therefore, it is not wrong to say that social media becomes the first choice tool for bullying someone.
Finally, the author posits that social media has become a distraction and decrease productivity. People are more likely to spend time in making artificial friendship. The lecturer believes with author contention and proves his contention by providing a study where it is cited that due to reduce in productivity United kingdom faced a loss of around 2.2 billion.
- Professors are normally found in university classrooms, offices, and libraries doing research and lecturing to their students. More and more, however, they also appear as guests on television news programs, giving expert commentary on the latest events in 85
- Loyalty is the most important quality in choosing a friend 76
- Formal education tends to restrain our minds and spirits rather than set them free. 50
- young people enjoy life more than older people. 76
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?It is better to have broad knowledge of many academic subjects than to specialize in one specific subject. 66
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 207, Rule ID: ENGLISH_WORD_REPEAT_BEGINNING_RULE
Message: Three successive sentences begin with the same word. Reword the sentence or use a thesaurus to find a synonym.
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Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: don't
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
finally, first, furthermore, if, moreover, second, secondly, so, therefore, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 9.0 10.4613686534 86% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 5.04856512141 0% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 7.30242825607 82% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 12.0772626932 108% => OK
Pronoun: 21.0 22.412803532 94% => OK
Preposition: 30.0 30.3222958057 99% => OK
Nominalization: 6.0 5.01324503311 120% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1323.0 1373.03311258 96% => OK
No of words: 246.0 270.72406181 91% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.37804878049 5.08290768461 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.96035189615 4.04702891845 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.95057273031 2.5805825403 114% => OK
Unique words: 135.0 145.348785872 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.548780487805 0.540411800872 102% => OK
syllable_count: 399.6 419.366225166 95% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 9.0 8.23620309051 109% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 2.5761589404 39% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 14.0 13.0662251656 107% => OK
Sentence length: 17.0 21.2450331126 80% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 43.5063331069 49.2860985944 88% => OK
Chars per sentence: 94.5 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 17.5714285714 21.698381199 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.35714285714 7.06452816374 90% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 4.19205298013 48% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 4.33554083885 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 4.45695364238 202% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 0.0 4.27373068433 0% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.377504747704 0.272083759551 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.157522891472 0.0996497079465 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.123249220831 0.0662205650399 186% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.232246051311 0.162205337803 143% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.102720760034 0.0443174109184 232% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.7 13.3589403974 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.22 53.8541721854 101% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 11.0289183223 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.63 12.2367328918 111% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.42419426049 104% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.0 10.7273730684 65% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.8 10.498013245 84% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 65.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 19.5 Out of 30
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